Baking-pan.



No. 891,085. PATENTED JUNE 16, 1908. M. L. LEAHY.

BAKING PAN.

APPLICATION FILED DEC). 24, 1907.

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PATENTED JUNE 16 M. L. LEAHY.

BAKING PAN.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.24,1907.

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MICHAEL LAWRENCE LEAHY, OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA.

BAKING-PAN.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented June 16, 1908.

Application filed December 24, 1907. Serial No. 407,914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it'known that 1, MICHAEL LAWRENCE LEAHY, 'a citizen of the United States, residing at Norman, in the county of Cleveland and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baking-Pans and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in baking pans and more particularly to that class adapted to be used for baking bread or similar articles and my ob-v ject is to provide a pan of this class whereby a single or plurality of loaves may be baked.

A further object is to provide means for forming a seal around the edge of the pan to prevent the contents of the pan from passing between the edges of the two sections thereof, and a still further object is to provide means for forming an imprint in the top and bottom of the loaf of bread.

Other objects and advantages will be hereinafter referred to and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are made a part of this application, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a single pan, showing the same in its closed position. Fig. 2 is a transverse, vertical sectional view of the pan in its open position, and, Fig. 3 is a sectional view through a pan having a plurality of compartments.

Referring to the drawings in which similar reference numerals designate corresponding arts throughout the several views, 1 and 2 indicate the top and bottom sections, respectively, of my improved form of baking pan, which may be constructed in the usual or any preferred form, each of said sections having its free portions bent to form a flange 3 and 4, respectively, surrounding the open edge of the pan and extending at right angles to the vertlcal plane of the pans and, if desired, said flanges may be coiled around-re-inforcing wires 5 and 6, respectively, thereby forming a bead around the'edge of each section. The two sections are preferably hinged together as best shown in Fig. 2, by cutting away a portion of the coiled sections ofv the flanges 3 and 4 and disposing straps 7 around the disposed portions of the Wires 5 and 6, said straps forming the hinges between the two sections.

In preparing the bread-stud for baking, the two sections of the pan are filled with the dough and the section 1 swung over the sections 2 and, in order to prevent the dough from passing between the edges of the two sections, articularly when the two sections are slight y extended by heat, the flange 3 is provided with a rib 8, approximately semicircular in cross section which is adapted to seat in a gutter 9 formed in the flange 4, said rib and gutter forming a complete seal between the meeting edges of the two sections when the sections are in their closed positions. It is also to be stated that the gutter 9 is semi-circular in cross section.

As best shown in Fig. 1, an imprint is formed in the loaf of bread by providing raised letters 10 in the bottoms of the sections 1 and 2, said raised letters forming indentations in the dough placed in the pans and will leave depressions in the loaf of bread similar to the outline of the raised. letters on the pan, thereby obviating the necessity of employing a separate label for the loaf.

As best shown in Fig. 3, a plurality of loaves may be simultaneously baked by increasing the number of sections and providing a plurality of baking spaces and, in this instance, the ribs 8 and gutters 9 are formed in the flanges extending along the ends of the several compartments and across the sides of the two outer compartments, but, if

referred, a rib and corresponding gutter may e placed longitudinally between-each pair of compartments.

In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings I have shown the top and bottom sections of unequal depth and said sections are tapered from their open to their closed edges, while in Fig. 3 of the drawings, I have shown the top and bottom sections of the same depth and tapered at varied angles from their open to their closed edges, that form of inclination shown in Fig. 3 being preferable, as the loaves may be more readilyremoved from the sections when the walls ofuthe pan are inclined in the manner shown.

It will thus be seen that I have provided a very cheap and economical form of baking pan and one wherein the dough will be prevented from passing between the meeting edges of the two sections formingthe pan.

It will further be seen that the two sections of the pan may be quickly separated to remove the loaves therefrom, after the same have been baked, and, by providing the 15 semi-circularin cross section, reinforcing v raised letters in the bottomsof the an ottom" imprint will be formed in the top an of the loaves. Y

' fiaiigncglaim is: 1 d a pan comprism an u er an a lower section/thdfree edg orti d of each section. being bent outwar y at approximately' right angles to form a continuous flange, the flange of the lower section havvir i dth and the flan e of the upper section a rib forme intermediate its width to PIOJGOt within the gutter of the lower section said rib/ 11d gutterbeing approximately erm'ed therein a gutter intermediate itsseeno eul rods carried b the free edge portions Of the flanges, said ee edge portions being bent around said rods, parts of the bent portions of the flanges being cut awayto expose the rods, and straps engaging the exposed por-120 tions of the rods for hinge'dly engaging the sections one to the other. In testimony whereof I have signed r'ny name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MICHAEL LAWRENCE LEAHY.

, Witnesses: i

I J. O. JONAS,

' J. G. LINDSAY. 

